The new week in Washington begins just like the last: A mess. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said his conference made “progress” Sunday to try to avert a government shutdown, but the proposed month-long stopgap spending unveiled hours later was in trouble from the get-go. McCarthy still isn’t sure he can protect his job. And GOP colleagues, particularly...
The House this week will look to take up a GOP-crafted continuing resolution to fund the government beyond Sept. 30 — the conference’s opening move in Congress’s quest to avoid an end-of-the-month shutdown. A coalition of Republicans announced an internal deal for the stopgap bill Sunday night, which would extend the funding deadline by a month,...
Indiana Attorney General Rodd Rokita claimes doctors violated HIPPA laws by publicizing a 10-year-old girls' trip from Ohio to Indiana for an abortion.